World Poker Tour Championship Day 3: Lebanese Amateur Sam El Sayed LeadsThree Former Champions Among Remaining 52 |
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Day 3 of the 2011 World Poker Tour Championship has ended, with just 52 pieces of debris remaining after the dust settled — about a quarter of the 220 that ponied up $25,000 for a plastic chair in the Fontana Lounge at the Bellagio.
The chip leader going into day 4 is cigar aficionado Sam El Sayed, who won the WPT Amneville Championship back in November to receive a free buy-in to the season-ending event. El Sayed said he took a lot of risks to get chips because his game is not tailored to grinding and surviving with a short stack. He wanted to finish the day with at least 600,000, and accomplished his objective by ending play with 1.107 million, good for a 9,000 chip lead over Nenad Medic.
“The way I play, I need chips,” said El Sayed, who was unaware he was the day-ending chip leader until Card Player told him so. “I don’t know how to play the short stack. I am aggressive, I see flops. Tomorrow is a very important day, and you need to come with a lot of chips, so the other player has to put his life on the line if he wants to play with you. Since I have 1 million in chips, I can put a lot of lives on the line.”
Already with one of the top stacks in the room, El Sayed managed to scoop a large pot versus Andrew Lichtenberger and last year’s champion David Williams. On a board reading 10-6-3-J-Q, with no flush possibility, El Sayed held 9-8 and had called two streets of heavy betting by Lichtenberger. On the river, Williams checked, and El Sayed bet out with his queen-high straight. Lichtenberger went into the tank, before finally calling. Williams allegedly mucked 6-3 for two pair, and El Sayed exposed the straight to the dismay of Lichtenberger. The pot catupaulted the Lebanese amateur to the chip lead.
In addition to Williams (480,000), two other former champions of the event survived to endure hours of boredom alleviated by moments of terror tomorrow on day 4. Yevgeniy Timoshenko held on with 166,500, while David Chiu ended play with 772,000, good for seventh on the chip counts.
During one of the breaks Card Player caught up with Christian Harder, who, with 887,000 in chips, is in fourth going into day 4. Harder final tabled the event in 2009.
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Below is a list of the official chip counts:
Played resumes on Tuesday at noon local time.
| Rank | First Name | Last Name | Chip Count |
| 1 | SAM | EL SAYED | 1,107,000 |
| 2 | NENAD | MEDIC | 1,098,500 |
| 3 | STEVEN | KELLY | 1,000,500 |
| 4 | CHRISTIAN | HARDER | 887,000 |
| 5 | ROGER | TESKA | 846,000 |
| 6 | SHANNON | SHORR | 819,500 |
| 7 | DAVID | CHIU | 772,000 |
| 8 | JUSTIN | YOUNG | 688,000 |
| 9 | ALAN | STERNBERG | 676,500 |
| 10 | GALEN | HALL | 659,000 |
| 11 | SAMUEL | TRICKETT | 603,000 |
| 12 | ROBERTO | ROMANELLO | 602,000 |
| 13 | BURTON | BOUTIN | 528,500 |
| 14 | JONATHAN | TURNER | 517,500 |
| 15 | ASHTON | GRIFFIN | 510,500 |
| 16 | DAVID | ULLIOTT | 500,000 |
| 17 | ABRAHAM | MOSSERI | 495,500 |
| 18 | WILL “THE THRILL” | FAILLA | 485,000 |
| 19 | DAVID | WILLIAMS | 480,000 |
| 20 | KWINSEE | TRAN | 469,500 |
| 21 | JOSEPH | CHEONG | 418,000 |
| 22 | DAVID | BROWNWORTH | 405,000 |
| 23 | JUSTIN | SMITH | 389,000 |
| 24 | SCOTT | SEIVER | 382,500 |
| 25 | TAYLOR | VONKRIEGENBERGH | 345,000 |
| 26 | RICHARD | HARROCH | 343,000 |
| 27 | ANDREW | FRANKENBERGER | 342,500 |
| 28 | KENNY | TRAN | 342,500 |
| 29 | DANIEL | ALAEI | 308,000 |
| 30 | FARZAD | BONYADI | 308,000 |
| 31 | HARALABOS | VOULGARIS | 292,500 |
| 32 | WILLIAM | BAXTER | 255,000 |
| 33 | DOYLE | BRUNSON | 250,000 |
| 34 | JOSHUA | BERGMAN | 243,500 |
| 35 | RANDY | DORFMAN | 230,000 |
| 36 | ALEXANDER | KUZMIN | 218,000 |
| 37 | MATTHEW | HYMAN | 213,000 |
| 38 | ANDREW | LICHTENBERGER | 212,000 |
| 39 | JONATHAN | LAYANI | 200,000 |
| 40 | MICHAEL | TAIT | 198,500 |
| 41 | PAUL | RAUCHSTADT | 195,000 |
| 42 | THOMAS | DRIVAS | 178,000 |
| 43 | YEVGENIY | TIMOSHENKO | 166,500 |
| 44 | HAFIZ | KHAN | 156,000 |
| 45 | ALI | TEKINTAMGAC | 155,000 |
| 46 | DOUGLAS | BOOTH | 150,500 |
| 47 | DAVID | PETERS | 148,500 |
| 48 | TYLER | SMITH | 135,000 |
| 49 | ANTHONY | GARGANO | 125,500 |
| 50 | RYAN | DANGELO | 120,500 |
| 51 | THOMAS | MCCORMACK | 108,500 |
| 52 | STEPHEN | ODWYER | 70,000 |
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